Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Received from Refuse Fascism Chicago

Wednesday Jan 29, 5-7pm

Remove Trump 

NOW Protest!

Federal Center and Plaza
219 S Dearborn St, Chicago
link to facebook event here

Impeachment is not a "done deal." NOW is the time to show up, turn out, demand Trump's removal!

We will rally the night before the Senate votes on allowing witnesses against Trump, which appears to be Wednesday but that date MAY CHANGE so please "join" and stay alert - now is a moment to seize to stop this fascist regime, but that takes ALL of us to turn dread for the future into hope!

In December, Trump was impeached in the House on two charges: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for pressuring Ukraine to help rig the 2020 election and then refusing to cooperate with a legal-constitutional investigation. Now a trial is taking place in the Senate to determine whether or not Trump should be convicted and removed from office. In the Senate trial, the Republican Party is trying to ram through a sham trial and a fast acquittal – not even allowing witnesses or new evidence that has been revealed in the last few weeks. Witnesses and evidence that could not only prove Donald Trump’s guilt but also implicate Vice President Pence, Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and several others at the highest levels of this regime.

Stop being a spectator. It’s time to show up now – when it counts!

If this impeachment process gets shut down it will green light a fascist who claims this is nullifying his election, while he has been caught red-handed rigging the next one, demolishing the separation of powers and the rule of law. It will further unleash this President who has threatened to jail his political opponents, attacks the press as the enemy, who has set up concentration camps for immigrants, openly supports white supremacists and is rallying into the streets armed mobs of his supporters calling for civil war. Trump has threatened not to leave office even if he loses the 2020 election. This is not something YOU can sit out. History will ask what you did when there was a chance to stop him.

There are real stakes in this Senate trial of Trump. Most important is if he is acquitted, which is now the likely outcome – especially absent a mass outpouring of the people - he will feel vindicated and exact revenge with a vengeance. At the same time, the attention of big sections of liberal and “progressive” people will “move-on” to the primaries and the elections, even more oblivious to the sharpening stakes of fascism unfolding – not only the possibility of Trump winning, but possibly refusing to leave office and the specter of a thoroughly enraged fascist base. And undoubtedly many others will be demoralized.




Friday, January 24, 2020

Received from Refuse Fascism Chicago

Open #OutNOW Organizing Meeting
Sunday at 2 PM – 5 PM
About Face Offices, 
5252 N Broadway St, Chicago

facebook link to event here
Look at what has happened this month: Trump has been impeached and faces a Senate trial over removal, widening divides throughout society. Trump committed a brazen war crime by assassinating a high ranking official of Iran, threatening more. He reminds the world that a dangerous bully heading a fascist regime has an itchy Twitter-finger on the nuclear button. The danger of all-out war remains even as Trump’s sanctions intensify the suffering of the Iranian people.

The #OutNOW movement joined with those protests and organized weekly rallies and marches demanding Trump/Pence #OutNOW. We counter-protested the misogynist "March for Life" [sic] and mobilized to bring the #OutNOW demand into the protest when Trump brought another of his Nuremberg hate rallies to Milwaukee. This past weekend we joined the Women's March in Chicago and afterwards led a spirited march to Trump Tower that gave expression to the real hatred of women and men for all the crimes of this fascist regime and the #OutNOW demand. Now we are raising funds to support and send more volunteers to DC in the midst of a crucial moment as Trump faces a trial in the Senate, only the third president to do so.

All of these marches and rallies are absolutely vital - and not nearly enough. We will take stock of what we've accomplished, what we've run up against. and most of all what we can do to unleash anger into a powerful, persistent force in the streets, overcoming the normalization of fascism and turning dread for the future into hope.

Everyone who wants to see Trump & Pence #OUTNOW is welcome to join us at this open meeting. Bring your thinking & creativity as we work together on how to get the millions who oppose the Trump/Pence Regime into the streets to drive it out.

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Received from Refuse Fascism Chicago

Saturday Jan 25, 11:30 am
Rally at Millenium Park

March to TRUMP TOWER 

and join the 

Global Day of Protest
No War on Iran!

We'll rally at 11:30 am at Millennium Park (Randolph & Michigan) and march to Trump Tower to join the "NO War on Iran" protest, one of many around the country. Trump committed an act of war by ordering the assassination of a leading member of a foreign government the US is not at war with, and now he brags that he didn't need any justification. The people of Iran and Iraq are already paying a heavy price for this "America First" regime. In the midst of an impeachment trial, the situation is extremely volatile.



Come to the Open #OutNOW Organizing Meeting
Sunday Janurary 26, 2pm-5pm
About Face Offices,
5252 N Broadway St, Chicago

Everyone who wants to see Trump/Pence #OUTNOW is welcome to join us at this open meeting. Bring your thinking & creativity as we work together on how to get the millions who oppose the Trump/Pence Regime into the streets to drive it out.

We need to stay in the streets, for this and millions of other reasons. Join us in inviting everyone who is agonizing over the prospect of full-out war to take up the only strategy to stop them - sustained, non-violent, growing protest with ONE non-negotiable demand: Trump/Pence #OUTNOW!


EVERY DAY THAT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME REMAINS IN POWER THREATENS THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND THE PLANET.

Everyone with a conscience must face this hard truth. But that alone is not enough—we must now ACT ON IT.

There is a way to remove this whole regime—the #OUTNOW! Movement of sustained, nonviolent protest that doesn’t stop until the regime has been removed from power.

Monday, January 13, 2020

Received from Refuse Fascism Chicago

Click here to watch Facebook 
Join the #OUTNOW Contingent at the Women's March
Saturday 1/18 in Chicago

On Saturday, we brought a version of the performance created by Las Tesis in Chile (most recently seen in NYC outside of Harvey Weinstein's trial and then Trump Tower, Friday), with lyrics updated for Trump's America to Trump Tower in Chicago:

Join us Saturday January 18 to join with the thousands marching downtown and bring the Trump / Pence #OutNow message, then stay for a bigger, better performance of "The Rapist in Your Path."

Meet at 9:30am on the east side of Michigan Ave, just south of Jackson Blvd. Invite your friends via Facebook 

DONATE TO GET TRUMP/PENCE #OUTNOW

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Join us to protest 
Trump in Milwaukee 
on Tuesday, Jan 14

Refuse Fascism and the #OutNow movement will join the January 14 protest in Milwaukee against Trump’s fascist rally and demand: Trump/Pence #OUTNOW! No War on Iran!
The #OutNow contingent will gather at 5:30 PM at the protest rally site in Red Arrow Park (Dontre Hamilton Park), 920 N. Water St., Milwaukee, WI 53202. Look for the #OutNow banner. The demonstration will march from the park to Trump’s speech at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panther Arena.

To connect with #OutNow contingent in Milwaukee, call or text Refuse Fascism at 312.488.9465 chicago@refusefascism.org

To carpool from Chicago to Milwaukee, join the FB event or email us to let us know, including if you have a car and how many people you can bring.

Milwaukee against Trump’s fascist rally and demand: Trump/Pence #OUTNOW! No War on Iran!


EVERY DAY THAT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME REMAINS IN POWER THREATENS THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND THE PLANET.


Together, we must make January a month of struggle building a broad based #OUTNOW! movement to advance this great cause. There is a way to remove this whole regime—the #OUTNOW! Movement of sustained, nonviolent protest that doesn’t stop until the regime has been removed from power. We must follow the examples of millions all over the world carrying out mass struggle to demand regime change in their countries.

Trump's act of war against Iran has already escalated the threat of future conflict and suffering for people of the Middle East. IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, Trump/Pence #OUTNOW! #NoWarWithIran!


#OutNow will meet immediately after the protest at a location TBA to make plans for #OutNow at the January 18 women’s marches (Chicago #OutNOW contingent FB event) and January 25 national day of protest.


For more information about Protest Trump in Milwaukee, go here. 

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Received from Refuse Fascism Chicago

Saturday January 11

#OUTNOW
Trump/Pence Out Now!

Saturday 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM
James R. Thompson Center
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Hosted by Refuse Fascism Chicago

Trump has been impeached. He has ratcheted up the danger of war with Iran.

Now is a time for determined struggle by the people to go all the way to demand: Trump/Pence #OUTNOW!

EVERY DAY THAT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME REMAINS IN POWER THREATENS THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND THE PLANET.

Everyone with a conscience must face this hard truth. But that alone is not enough—we must now ACT ON IT.

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No War on Iran! 
Emergency Protest!
Wednesday 1/8/20 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Trump Tower/Wacker and Wabash

Donald Trump decided to declare war against Iran when he assassinated a senior Iranian general at the Baghdad airport. Now, predictably Iran has retaliated. The entire region could be engulfed in war and this war can quickly become a global 
conflict. Join the thousands of people who are demanding no war with Iran, who are demand peace! 

Come out to this emergency protest at  Wacker and Wabash, the people will not go quietly into another
disastrous war in the Middle East!


There is a way to remove this whole regime—the #OUTNOW! Movement of sustained, nonviolent protest that doesn’t stop until the regime has been removed from power.

#NoWarOnIran #NoWarOnWomen #TrumpPenceOutNow

11:30 
Rally at the Thompson Center plaza demanding Trump/Pence Out Now, NO war on Iran!

12:30
March to join the counter-protest against the annual anti-abortion rally at Daley Plaza - STOP the fascist war on women!

1:30
March to bring the #OUTNOW message to the streets of Chicago, ending at Trump Tower.

Friday, January 3, 2020

Received from Refuse Fascism Chicago

Emergency Protest: 

U.S. Out of Iraq! 

No War on Iran!

Hosted by Answer Chicago and 5 others

Saturday 1/4 12noon to 2pm
Wacker and Wabash
Chicago, Illinois
Donald Trump has ordered hundreds and perhaps thousands of more U.S. troops to the Middle East in response to the massive protests in Iraq following the latest U.S. aerial assault that killed scores of Iraqis. The protesters siege of the U.S. Embassy has ended as of now but the recent U.S. bombings of Iraq reveal the criminal, imperial character of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. More than a million Iraqis have died during the past 28 years as a consequence of U.S. occupation, bombings, and sanctions. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have either been killed or suffered life-changing wounds. The U.S. government has spent more than $3 trillion dollars in the on-going occupation and bombing of this oil-rich country.

In response we are calling on all people of conscience to come out to Trump Tower this Saturday at 12 noon to demand U.S. troops out of Iraq. This is part of a national coordinated day of action.

Co-Sponsors:
ANSWER Chicago
Party for Socialism and Liberation - Chicago
People United Against Oppression
Refuse Fascism Chicago
CODEPINK
The Chicago Committee Against War & Racism
Voices for Creative Non-Violence
SDS - UIC
The People's Lobby

Endorsers:
International League of People's Struggle - Midwest
Anti-War Committee Chciago
Gay Liberation Network
Chicago Area Peace Action - Depaul

If your organization would like to endorse or co-sponsor, please message us!
No to War! No to Sanctions! U.S. Out of the Middle East!

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